House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that he won't call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends. "We will come back, and get back to legislative session, as soon as the Senate Democrats turn the lights back on," Johnson told reporters in the Capitol, as the lapse in funding stretched into a 10th day. "That's the fact. That's where we are."
Machado's rise as the supreme leader of the Venezuelan opposition is part of a world-wide trend in which far-right leaders and movements have achieved major inroads.
Not even shutting down the government can stop Republicans from forcing their way into corporate boardrooms these days. The federal government is, at the moment, incapable of completing its most basic and routine task"passing a budget"and yet it is simultaneously expanding its portfolio to include a 10 percent ownership stake in an Alaskan mining company. That company, Trilogy Metals, will receive a $35.6 million "investment," the Trump administration announced on Monday. In return, the federal government will own 10 percent of the company (and will have the option to buy another 7.5 percent at some later date). The deal seems to follow the same blueprint that the Trump administration has used to seize stakes in U.S. Steel, Intel, and others: Trilogy does something that the White House has decided is essential for national security"in this case, mining for cobalt, copper, and other critical metals"and therefore the government must have a stake in the company's future.
Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and "states' rights." read more
By using their authority to define what corporations are -- and what powers they hold -- states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics. read more
I was stationed in Beaufort for 3 years. Beautiful town. I'd love it today but it was pretty dull for a 20 year old.